Recently, the working group of Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC and Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN convened a stakeholders forum to fine-tune the planned implementation of mobile money in the nation’s economy where the President of Medallion Technologies, Mr. Ike Nnamani was a guest speaker. In this interview, he shed light on the workability, benefits and the potentials of the policy. Excerpts:

To avert network congestion, Nigerian government is said to be pushing for additional spectrum on the 700MHz that would enable the telecom operators in the country provide efficient services as well as deploy less base stations across the country.

A certain tall building at the centre of Herbert Macauley road, Yaba Lagos, does not have any meaningful difference from other buildings around the area, until one gets inside. It doesn’t even have the aesthetic features of modern buildings dotting the Lagos metropolis, but the topmost floor of the building holds the future for the country and to some extent the entire world.

Despite the vast number of certified professionals in aspect of Information Technology services in the country, the President of the Nigerian Computer Society, (NCS), Mr. Demola Aladekomo has said that Nigeria is still largely a consumer nation in the IT world.

At the end of the just concluded Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, (ISPON) national software conference and competition held in Tinapa, Calabar, Cross River State, participants rose up from the conference saying among other things that there was need to retool the national workforce with ICT with particular reference to civil service operations by making all workers ICT literate and skilled.